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Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives?: The Foundations of the Libertarian-Conservative DebateIn Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives?, Nathan W. Schlueter and Nikolai G. Wenzel present a lively debate over the essential questions that divide two competing political philosophies. Wenzel--a libertarian who believes the state should be restricted to protecting life, liberty, and property--and Schlueter--a conservative...
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Inside the Arkansas LegislatureAuthor: Bill Scoop LancasterPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 06/15/2015Pages: 230Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52dISBN: 9781503574014This title is not returnable
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Taiwan: Country ProfileThis book focus on these major topics: Historical Background, Geography, Society, Economy, Transportation and Telecommunications, Government and Politics and also National Security along with many other subtopics.Author: Library of CongressPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 11/21/2014Pages: 30Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.06dISBN:...
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Piracy and Maritime Crime: Historical and Modern Case StudiesPiracy, or "robbery on the high seas," has existed for as long as people and commodities have traversed the oceans. The ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese all complained of it, and all created naval forces to fight pirates. The word "piracy" comes from the...
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Revisiting Taiwan's Defense StrategyChina's recent military modernization has fundamentally altered Taiwan's security options. New Chinese submarines, advanced surface-to-air missiles, and, especially, short-range ballistic and land-attack cruise missiles have greatly reduced Taiwan's geographic advantage. Taipei can no longer expect to counter Chinese military strengths in a symmetrical manner,...
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Bougainville ManifestoLeonard Fong Roka comes from Panguna on Bougainville. This compilation of essays was made between 2013 and 2014 and first appeared on the website, Keith Jackson & Friends: PNG Attitude. The essays outline the history of Bougainville, including the civil war in the 1980-90s,...
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What Really Happened in Northern Ireland's Counterinsurgency Revision and RevelationThe current conflicts facing the United States and its allies around the world have brought the discussion of counterinsurgency to the forefront of security studies and international politics. Dr. Thomas Henriksen's monograph on Northern Ireland wades into the discussion regarding good historical case studies...
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The RepublicThe Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man, reason by which ancient readers used the name On Justice as an alternative title. The...
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The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar ItalyIn The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy's remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessions--colonies, protectorates, and provinces--in Africa and the Balkans, the repatriation of Italian nationals from those territories, and the integration of these "national refugees"...
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Reputation for Resolve: How Leaders Signal Determination in International PoliticsHow do reputations form in international politics? What influence do these reputations have on the conduct of international affairs? In Reputation for Resolve, Danielle L. Lupton takes a new approach to answering these enduring and hotly debated questions by shifting the focus away from...
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The Gathering Storm: Eduardo Frei's Revolution in Liberty and Chile's Cold WarIn this novel take on diplomatic history, Sebastián Hurtado-Torres examines the involvement of the United States in Chile during the Eduardo Frei administration (1964-1970) and shows how the engagement between the two nations deepened the process of political polarization in Chile. At the heart...
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Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata ReformWith a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi. As Ericson shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial-stabilization program--a sort...
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Street Sovereigns: Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban HaitiHow do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse--and at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken by young men on the margins of urban Haiti who broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers in order...
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Super Bomb: Organizational Conflict and the Development of the Hydrogen BombSuper Bomb unveils the story of the events leading up to President Harry S. Truman's 1950 decision to develop a "super," or hydrogen, bomb. That fateful decision and its immediate consequences are detailed in a diverse and complete account built on newly released archives...
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The Virtues of Economy: Governance, Power, and Piety in Late Medieval RomeThe humanist perception of fourteenth-century Rome as a slumbering ruin awaiting the Renaissance and the return of papal power has cast a long shadow on the historiography of the city. Challenging this view, James A. Palmer argues that Roman political culture underwent dramatic changes...
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Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella MovementIn a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge...
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Nuclear Summer: The Clash of Communities at the Seneca Women's Peace EncampmentWhen thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so disturbed residents that they organized counterdemonstrations, wrote hundreds of letters to local newspapers,...
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Sentiment, Reason, and Law: Policing in the Republic of China on TaiwanWhat if the job of police was to cultivate the political will of a community to live with itself (rather than enforce law, keep order, or fight crime)? In Sentiment, Reason, and Law, Jeffrey T. Martin describes a world where that is the case.The...
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The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UaeThe contrast between Kuwait and the UAE today illustrates the vastly different possible futures facing the smaller states of the Gulf. Dubai's rulers dream of creating a truly global business center, a megalopolis of many millions attracting immigrants in great waves from near and...
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Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French AlgeriaPart murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. Joshua Cole reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jews were...
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